This mountain has symbolical significance for Catalan people. On its summit there is a cross that is often decorated with the Catalan flag.[2] Every year on 23 June, the night before St. John's day (nit de Sant Joan), there is a ceremony called Flama del Canigó (Canigou Flame), where a fire is lit at the mountaintop. People keep a vigil during the night and take torches lit on that fire in a spectacular torch relay to light bonfires somewhere else.[3] Some estimates conclude that about 30,000 bonfires are lit in this way all over Catalonia on that night.[4]